Events
PS Workshop Group June
PS Workshop Group
This intimate monthly group offers an encouraging space to develop your poetry. Sessions include feedback on your poems-in-progress alongside conversation around contemporary poetry and next steps for you and your work.
Spring/Summer term [Feb-Jun] @ £180 for 5 sessions. Dates: Feb 25, March 25, April 22, May 27, Jun 24
Places are limited @ 4-8 poets to keep the group small.
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 7/10
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 8/10
POETRY STUDIO: Father, Mother
Now that he’s dead I’m waiting for Fatherbird to visit me
in a dream.
Months and years have passed.
- from The Afterlife of Fatherbird by Moniza Alvi
In Blackbird, Bye Bye, Moniza Alvi creates the figures of Motherbird and Fatherbird to pay homage to her parents, and find her way through loss. Close or distant, present or absent, there are innumerable ways to approach these most personal and singular relationships.
We will taking inspiration from poets including Patrick McGuiness, Laura Scott, Ghassan Zaqtan, Mimi Khalvati, Raymond Carver, Zbigniew Herbert, Moniza Alvi and more.
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 9/10
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 10/10
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 6/10
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 5/10
POETRY STUDIO: The Tenderness of Things
For Francis Ponge, the French surrealist, essayist and ‘poet of things’, all objects yearn to express themselves… They mutely await the coming of the word so that they may reveal the hidden depts of their being.
We will read poems on a pebble, a candle, a boat, a yellow glove… and we will write our own object poems taking inspiration from poets including Wislawa Szymborska, Charles Simic, Craig Raine, Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein and Naomi Shihab Nye.
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 4/10
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 3/10
PS Workshop Group May
PS Workshop Group
This intimate monthly group offers an encouraging space to develop your poetry. Sessions include feedback on your poems-in-progress alongside conversation around contemporary poetry and next steps for you and your work.
Spring/Summer term [Feb-Jun] @ £180 for 5 sessions. Dates: Feb 25, March 25, April 22, May 27, Jun 24
Places are limited @ 4-8 poets to keep the group small.
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 2/10
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 1/10
Poetry Studio: OULIPO
Poetry Studio: OULIPO Potential & Possibilities
Join us to embrace the endless possibilities of constraints to generate new poems
PS Workshop Group April
PS Workshop Group
This intimate monthly group offers an encouraging space to develop your poetry. Sessions include feedback on your poems-in-progress alongside conversation around contemporary poetry and next steps for you and your work.
Spring/Summer term [Feb-Jun] @ £180 for 5 sessions. Dates: Feb 25, March 25, April 22, May 27, Jun 24
Places are limited @ 4-8 poets to keep the group small.
Poetry Studio: The Prose Poem
Poetry Studio: The Prose Poem
Join us to explore the possibilities of that most elusive of forms, the prose poem.
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 1/10
PS Workshop Group March
March Workshop
Spring/Summer term [Feb-Jun] Feb 25, March 25, April 22, May 27, Jun 24
Poetry School: Lighting the World
Summer Term: Thursdays from May 15 - July 17
Session 1/10
PS Workshop Group February
PS Workshop Group
This intimate monthly group offers an encouraging space to develop your poetry. Sessions include feedback on your poems-in-progress alongside conversation around contemporary poetry and next steps for you and your work.
Spring/Summer term [Feb-Jun] @ £180 for 5 sessions. Dates: Feb 25, March 25, April 22, May 27, Jun 24
Places are limited @ 4-8 poets to keep the group small.
Poetry Studio: The Dark: Pleasures & Possibilities
Rescheduled from November 11 2024
Poetry Studio ‘Connecting with Translation’.
OULIPO
The theme of our July studio is inspired by the French post-surrealist group OULIPO
Your Local Arena: Caroline 199
Poem commission from Lucy Hannah’s website:
Your Local Arena Roving Poet in Residence, Shazea Quraishi, wrote this new poem in response to the film. She performed ‘Caroline (199)’ at the screening and panel event at the Heritage Harbour Festival. You can watch her read it here, and read it yourself by clicking below. Scroll down to find out more about Shazea.
Note: This poem is comprised of words from Nina Simone, the Arena documentary, and lines from songs by Ray Charles and the Rolling Stones, which were played in the early days of Radio Caroline.